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Gee, James Paul; Grosjean, Francois – Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Language, 1984
Used experimental tasks--spontaneous telling of a story, reading, and parsing--to determine whether empirical data reflect narrative structure of stories. It was concluded that spontaneous pausing reflects the narrative structure and can be used as a guide to constructing theories of narrative structure and deciding between competing theories.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Literature Reviews, Models, Narration
Armstrong, David F.; Katz, Solomon H. – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1982
Discusses the hypothesis that right hemispheric cognitive processes underlie establishment of meaning in language and in processing of linguistic gestalts, and examines several lines of evidence. Also examined is the hypothesis that societal complexity is related to differences in relative dependence upon cognitive processes controlled by cerebral…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research, Language Role
Sigel, Irving E. – 1985
A conceptual model is presented for the development of thinking skills by using an instructional model employing high level cognitive demands. "Distancing" is proposed as the concept to denote behaviors or events that separate the child cognitively from the immediate behavioral environment. Forms and functions of distancing behavior are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Conflict Resolution, Developmental Stages